Engulfed in Peace
By Ron McGatlin
Injustice exudes from an upside down fallen world. The masses have had their minds inverted and their hearts darkened. Wisdom has hidden and righteousness has departed far from them. The shrewd and strong take from the weak and simple and no one intervenes. They spend wildly what they do not have for what they do not need. They trample the precious and embrace the corrupt. They reject truth and cherish lies. They kill their babies and pamper their pets. They sleep with a viper and run from a Lamb. They abandon their wives and molest their children. They run after knowledge and turn away from truth. Their judgment is upon their heads and they know it not. The devourer is upon them and their time of loss is at hand. Their leaders take them the wrong way and they do not discern.
Their sin has separated them from their God (Isa 59:2). They have turned from Him and He has given them over to perverse reprobate minds (Rom 1:28).
To have spiritual eyes and understanding is a burden. Seeing what should be and finding no way for it to be is a source of great frustration and discouragement. To see our once blessed nation crumbling and the children wasting their lives brings great pain. To see the armies of evil moving in to devour the strength of the people is sad beyond measure. However, the hardest part of all is to know the solution, to have the remedy to save the land and restore the people and be violently turned away. This is the most troubling and frustrating of all.
But take heart and be filled with courage. God is not finished yet. There is a kingdom reality manifesting now with us and before us is the righteousness, peace and joy of the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven.
In the midst of the devastation of cataclysmic events of judgments, a great light shines through on the horizon. Beyond the smoke and dust of devastation the Kingdom reigns and the glory approaches. Look up to the light and be engulfed with total peace beyond all reason and understanding. Even in the midst of great destruction your heart will be at perfect peace and rest. Warmth and comfort will supernaturally engulf your heart and life. As the light approaches, the peace of righteousness will become joy unspeakable and full of glory.
Do not dwell upon the news of death and despair. Do not set your eyes on the evil that is being dissolved but look up and set you affection on the light of our glorious KING the LORD of all and His kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy.
Keep on preaching and demonstrating the kingdom grabbing hold of those who come running out of the fire. Refresh them with the pure cool water of the Spirit and provide them a fresh clean change of cloths. Many will be saved even during the cleansing fires of judgment. Supernatural faith and peace will be graced to you to finish the work of God allotted to you. You will be engulfed in peace hidden in a cloud of His love. Set your mind on things above. Set your affection on heavenly things of Christ Jesus in the Spirit.
Col 3:2: Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
Let your life be consumed in the Spirit. Let you daily moment by moment walk be in the Spirit.
Gal 5:25: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Be led of the Spirit in all things and lean not unto your own understanding.
Prov 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding.
Rom 8:14: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Psa 91:7-8: A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked.
Phil 4:4-7: Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:8-9: Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy; meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
Keep on pursuing love. It never fails and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
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